American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Molecules in Motion
Students observe, on a molecular level, how heating and cooling affect molecular motion.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Does Temperature Affect Dissolving?
Students identify and control variables to design an experiment to see whether the temperature of a solvent affects the speed at which a solute dissolves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion:circular Motion Mathematics
Using the values of speed, acceleration, and force, students explore and analyze the motion of objects in circles.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Drop and Pop Energy and Speed Exploration
Fourth graders use a toy to make observations that speed is related to the amount of energy in an object as well as work with gravitational and elastic potential energy.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Changes in Motion
In this lesson, you will learn about position vs. time graphs and velocity vs. time graphs and how to use them to solve problems.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Bumps and Buckles: A Lesson on Motion
In this physics lesson, the students will be learning that motion can be changed when a car goes down a ramp. By adding "speed bumps" in different lengths away from the ramp, they will observe what happens to their car. Students will...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion
This lesson focuses on how to calculate average speed and distance traveled. It also explains how to convert different units of measure and provides a link to an assessment.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Describing Motion With Words
This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School gives a nice review and detailed explanation of velocity, speed, distance, displacement, and acceleration. A good introduction to the "language of Kinematics."
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Motion: Investigating Motion Graphs
In this lesson, students investigate motion graphs. Students predict what the distance-time graph and velocity time graph would look like for a student walking across the room for three different scenarios.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion
This lesson focuses on motion including definitions, how to calculate the change in velocity and the average acceleration, and a link to an assessment.
ACT360 Media
Act Den: Speed Freak Lesson Plan
Use Paint Shop Pro to "Experiment with the deformations and effects so it looks as if an object in the photo is in motion." There are many interesting filters and effects that can be used to edit images to produce cool photo features.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Position Time Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How motion and speed can be represented by a distance-time graph and how average speed can be calculated from it.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Speed and Velocity
In this interactive module, describe and explain the motion of objects that either move in circles or can be approximated to be moving in circles. Kinematic concepts and motion principles will be applied to the motion of objects in...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Satellite Motion Math
In this interactive physics tutorial, students explore the variety of mathematical equations that describe the motion of satellites.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Relating Rotational & Tangential Speed Mathematically
A video lesson relating rotational speed and tangential speed. Video derives equation to show how to find tangential speed based on rotational speed. [4:32]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Instantaneous Velocity: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces the concept of instantaneous velocity without the use of calculus. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Instantaneous Velocity."
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
Other
Ward's Science: Speedy Energy
This is an interactive inquiry where students will investigate the speed of an object and the energy it exerts as it crashes into other objects. Students will understand that the more speed an object has, the more energy it has in a...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Scalars and Vectors
This illustrated tutorial focuses on several examples of vector and scalar quantities including distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion
In this lesson, students are introduced to both potential energy and kinetic energy as forms of mechanical energy. A hands-on activity demonstrates how potential energy can change into kinetic energy by swinging a pendulum, illustrating...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: How to Speed Up a Slow Grandfather: The Pendulum
In this lesson plan students are "given one hour to solve a problem that a has caused a huge drop in sales" for a clock company. All clocks are five minutes slow. Because of this, they must find a way to put the clock back on time...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Table of Contents
Learners examine motion with words, equations, diagrams, and graphs. Some topics investigated are position, velocity, acceleration, and free fall. The tutorial consists of lessons and problems to check for understanding.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's Up With All This Traffic?
Expanding on the topic of objects in motion covering Newton's laws of motion, acceleration and velocity, which are taught starting in third grade, students are introduced to new concepts of speed, density, level of service (LOS) (quality...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is Newton's First Law?
Students are introduced to the concepts of force, inertia, and Newton's first law of motion: objects at rest stay at rest and objects in motion stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.This lesson is the first in a series...